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About the Role
Jex Recruitment is hiring a Head of Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) for a role in Abu Dhabi. The position leads the FCC function, overseeing AML investigations, suspicious activity reporting, regulatory engagement, and financial crime risk management.
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Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee the Financial Crime Compliance function, ensuring adherence to all applicable AML regulations
- Develop, implement, and enhance financial crime policies, procedures, controls, and governance frameworks
- Provide strategic leadership on financial crime risk management and emerging regulatory developments
- Ensure effective identification, assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of financial crime risks across the institution
- Lead the AML Investigations function, ensuring timely, effective, and risk based investigation of suspicious activities
- Oversee complex and high risk investigations and provide guidance on significant financial crime matters
- Ensure investigations are conducted in accordance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and industry best practices
- Oversee the review, approval, and submission of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and related regulatory disclosures
- Maintain oversight of SAR governance, reporting quality, and escalation processes
- Manage regulatory examinations, inspections, information requests, and financial crime related enquiries
- Lead investigations relating to employee misconduct, AML control breaches, fraud concerns, policy violations, and other financial crime related matters
- Coordinate with Legal, HR, Internal Audit, Risk Management, and Compliance teams to ensure appropriate investigation outcomes and remediation actions
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Law, Business Administration, Criminology, or a related discipline
- Professional certifications such as CAMS, ICA Diploma, CFCS, or equivalent are highly desirable
- Minimum 10/15 years of experience in Financial Crime Compliance, Anti Money Laundering, Regulatory Compliance, or related disciplines within a regulated financial institution
- Significant experience leading AML investigations and financial crime compliance teams
- Strong knowledge of AML, CTF, fraud risk, and broader financial crime regulatory frameworks
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Role Purpose
- The Head of Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) is responsible for leading the organisation's Financial Crime Compliance function, with primary oversight of AML Investigations, suspicious activity reporting, regulatory engagement, and financial crime risk management activities.
- Working closely with regulators, Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) and senior stakeholders, the role is accountable for driving financial crime compliance initiatives, managing regulatory relationships, and ensuring effective investigation and reporting processes across the institution.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee the Financial Crime Compliance function, ensuring adherence to all applicable AML regulations
- Develop, implement, and enhance financial crime policies, procedures, controls, and governance frameworks
- Provide strategic leadership on financial crime risk management and emerging regulatory developments
- Ensure effective identification, assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of financial crime risks across the institution
- Lead the AML Investigations function, ensuring timely, effective, and risk based investigation of suspicious activities and financial crime concerns
- Oversee complex and high risk investigations and provide guidance on significant financial crime matters
- Ensure investigations are conducted in accordance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and industry best practices
- Oversee the review, approval, and submission of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and related regulatory disclosures
- Maintain oversight of SAR governance, reporting quality, and escalation processes
- Manage regulatory examinations, inspections, information requests, and financial crime related enquiries
- Lead investigations relating to employee misconduct, AML control breaches, fraud concerns, policy violations, and other financial crime related matters
- Coordinate with Legal, Human Resources, Internal Audit, Risk Management, and Compliance teams to ensure appropriate investigation outcomes and remediation actions
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Law, Business Administration, Criminology, or a related discipline
- Professional certifications such as CAMS, ICA Diploma, CFCS, or equivalent are highly desirable
- Minimum 10/15 years of experience in Financial Crime Compliance, Anti Money Laundering, Regulatory Compliance, or related disciplines within a regulated financial institution
- Significant experience leading AML investigations and financial crime compliance teams
- Strong knowledge of AML, CTF, fraud risk, and broader financial crime regulatory frameworks
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